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The trailer didn’t interest me at all with the overuse of CGI

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It is typical for trailers to be released while production is still in progress. Fury road had a TON of CGI, but it’s impossible to tell because by release the work was completed. People don’t realize how much CGI goes into movies these days and assume it’s all practical FX.

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It’s a mix of practical and VFX. The VFX production team on Fury road was huge. The reality is good CGI is impossible to discern from practical. There’s more to VFX than green screens.

No CGI is just invisible CGI

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I thought so too. It was really disappointing compared to all the amazing practical effects in Fury Road.

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See my above comment, but fury road had a TON of CGI (maybe half or more of the action shots). People don’t realize it because by the time the movie drops production is complete and good cgi is just invisible CGI. The production on Furiosa Is still in progress when the trailer was released.

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I would like to see a source regarding the TON of CGI effects used in Fury Road, because everything I’ve read and seen about it states the complete opposite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVdo1xUDMAQ

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I don’t think you’re completely accurate here. Do you have anything backing up your claim on the amount of CGI?

Fury Road is pretty well documented for using an inordinate amount of practical effects. Vehicles, costumes, explosions, etc. As far as I know, the most CGI was for the background/landscapes of scenes. And Furiousa’s hand of course. The quantity and the quality of CGI in Furiosa is my issue

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Fury road is up there with some of my favorites, so yeah I was disappointed.

I read it’s because the director is really getting up there in age and didn’t want to make production as long as the first, but who knows the real reason.

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I saw the trailer on youtube when it first dropped and it legit worried me. I saw the same trailer again before Dune 2 and it looked significantly better, which was a bit encouraging. I do understand where you’re coming from though, and feel much the same myself.

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George Miller is almost 80 now and the movie was partly shot during the pandemic. It was always going to be much more CG heavy than Fury Road. Doesn’t mean it’s bad.

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It’s not that it’s CGI that really bothered me, it’s that it’s not good CGI. I got the same feeling watching the trailer as I did the Hobbit.

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For me, it wasn’t the CGI so much as the bad green screen and compositing. CGI doesn’t even need to enter into it if you get the fundamentals wrong, and that part stuck out even in the trailers.

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